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APPLICATION OF RIDGE TOOL COMPANY

Patent Appeal No. 8691.

456 F.2d 786 (1972)

Application of RIDGE TOOL COMPANY.

United States Court of Customs and Patent Appeals.

March 30, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Darrell Douglass, Cleveland, Ohio, attorney of record, for appellant.

S. Wm. Cochran, Washington, D. C., for the Commissioner of Patents. Fred W. Sherling, Washington, D. C., of counsel.

Before RICH, ALMOND, BALDWIN, and LANE, Judges, and MALETZ, Judge, United States Customs Court, sitting by designation.

BALDWIN, Judge.

This appeal is from the decision of the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board1 sustaining the examiner's refusal to register appellant's mark RIDGID for measuring tapes and folding rules. As it appears in appellant's application,2 the mark is somewhat stylized:

Registration was refused in view of the previously registered mark RIGITAPE for measuring tape.

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